An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 6135-01-238-2878
NSN 4140-00-476-0672
NSN 5950-01-093-0827
NSN 5999-01-087-2353
NSN 5915-01-545-2232
NSN 4140-01-267-5137
NSN 5965-01-045-0247
NSN 6220-00-577-3435
NSN 5950-01-650-1620
NSN 5920-00-434-4230
NSN 5965-01-442-7364
NSN 6130-00-243-2208